Read the Tradition end of the societal axis alongside Progress, response context and the limits of a simplified score.
Read the Tradition end of the societal axis alongside Progress, response context and the limits of a simplified score.
This pole is one side of its named axis. Read it with the complementary pole and the weighted item responses; percentages are not population ranks, probabilities or a fixed identity.
What this societal label covers
Tradition is the upstream name for the complementary societal pole, connected in the included statements to continuity, inherited norms and resistance to some forms of change. It does not measure family commitment, religious devotion, age, wisdom or moral worth. Nor does it establish rejection of every new idea. The label summarizes a fixed collection of weighted responses whose wording may be interpreted differently across settings, rather than a complete account of someone’s culture.
A concrete comparison
Imagine two fictional respondents who both want to preserve a local celebration but disagree on a technology-related statement. Their societal totals can differ. A second pair could reach the same total through different combinations of answers. Some questions carry effects on another axis as well. This example shows why a score is not a single story about a person; it does not recommend preserving or abandoning any particular practice.
Keep Progress beside Tradition
Tradition is 100 minus the rounded Progress display. The pair expresses one normalized axis rather than independent quantities of respect for the past and interest in the future. A larger Tradition number does not prove hostility to science or change, and a smaller number does not establish a lack of meaningful customs. The quiz cannot infer a person’s private faith, family relations or reasons for accepting a particular norm.
Read middle and mixed responses openly
A value near 50 can arise from many neutral answers or from strong responses that offset. Exactly 50 is not a validated moderate type, and a nearby value does not certify a stable political category. The aggregate cannot reveal whether someone answered a broad statement with one specific setting in mind. Small rounded differences have no established significance here, and percentages do not rank people against a population sample.
An optional context and wording check
Choose one statement you found difficult to answer and note which words required interpretation. You may describe the difference between a general claim and the situation you imagined, without resolving the issue here. No direction of score change is preferred. These reading notes are not political or religious advice. Ask people about their actual views rather than using a Tradition percentage to guess how they live or vote.
The fixed calculation behind the pair
The societal absolute weight sum is 292 in the pinned seventy-item bank. Response multipliers from minus one to plus one are applied to the signed effects, including one effect of two and cross-axis contributions. The primary societal percentage is normalized and rounded to one decimal; Tradition is its displayed complement. Missing answers remain incomplete. The output has no population percentile, confidence interval or threshold validated for assigning an ideology.
Keep the source and purpose identifiable
The English items and effects are adapted from the named MIT revision, with its notice preserved. Chinese translation and original reading guides do not establish cross-language equivalence, reliability or contemporary cultural validity. There is no upstream or IDRlabs endorsement, no nearest-ideology label and no voting recommendation. Public sharing uses a general link without private responses or percentages. Keep all four axes visible and this result tied to one attempt rather than a permanent identity.